Voyager Clinic is reopening to provide pediatric specialty care
As our community grows, so does the demand for comprehensive specialty healthcare from top providers using the latest innovations. To better meet the increased need for care, M Health Fairview Pediatrics reopened M Health Fairview Pediatric Specialty Clinic – Voyager.
The Voyager Clinic reopening brings increased access to specialty care, such as gastroenterology, hepatology, weight management, nutrition services and other pediatric centered services. The care team at Voyager Clinic sees children from birth through their teen years. The clinic is also the new home for our adoption medicine program, which uses a team approach to support the health and development of children in foster care or who were adopted.
“In the last 10 years, our community has needed more access to specialty care,” said Orenthal Avery, clinical operations director at M Health Fairview. “We’re responding to growth and being creative with how we use our resources.”
The clinic reopened on Jan. 30 in the 2512 Building on the West Bank. The clinic, which originally opened in 2019, served children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental-behavioral concerns, until those programs moved to Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB) in 2021.
Now, Voyager has been repurposed and renovated to accommodate 19 exam rooms dedicated to specialty pediatric care. The phase 2 specialties are expected to be announced in summer 2024.
The Voyager Clinic reopening is the latest in a series of clinic openings and expansions supporting M Health Fairview Pediatrics’ mission to make specialty more accessible for children and their families. We recently opened similar pediatric specialty care clinics with community pediatric partners in Hudson, Minnetonka and Chaska.
Teams across M Health Fairview Pediatrics are working to expand care out of downtown Minneapolis and to the communities where care is also needed, Avery said. That means children in the suburbs can now get leading-edge gastrointestinal care in Chaska, and heart care in Hudson, Wis. This is another example of how the team at M Health Fairview Pediatrics is committed to expanding access to care.
